Walking through the mall after just having been treated to a double scooped ice cream cone (i was reminded of all the times Nana took us out for ice cream). Stevie Wonder's "I just called to say I love you" comes on. she sings in her salvadorean accent and i sing with her happily. She gasps "That dress is DELICIOUS!!" I find a happy state of ( Read more... )

"La m con la e son 'me' y entonces escribe una e aqui. aqui. escribe una e aqui" como 15 veces but she still won't do it. "escribe la e" i say with the tiniest bit of frustration in my voice. Suddenly she looks at me with bright eyes, smiles, kisses me on the cheek, looks back at her paper and finally writes the e. what can i say? :)

You know you´re in El Salvador when ( Read more... )

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after attempting to do my last paper for the quarter for awhile about the lack of progression stemming from being a "daydreamer" which is represented by the image of a rocking chair in Sister Carrie, i have come to the conclusion that bellybuttons are really weird.

Wow I really don't want to write my ed paper right now. the year's winding down- less than two weeks till i leave for el salvador!!!!! yay!!!! last night i had a dream that i found a parakeet in my parents' bathroom and i fed it and gave it water and took it around with me but it kept rolling up or turning into a breadstick-looking thing and i kept ( Read more... )

I can't marry someone who thinks I've been brainwashed.

I got my wallet stolen yesterday. either that or it fell out somehow... though it was even hard to pull it out with force sometimes. it made me sad.. it's hard to explain but i felt like i felt the collective spirit of the children of santa ana lower.. the collective messages in the air leaning towards what is wrong. i need to help ( Read more... )

I realized that, on days I volunteer for fieldwork in santa ana, I really enjoy walking the two or three blocks from my car to the center. It reminds me of riverside.. and there's this one tree I love in particular.. it makes me so spiritually soothed i guess. More content than at any other moment during the day. I realized it's because it isn't ( Read more... )

This is a fun one ( Read more... )